Agmates Editor Steve Truman writes;
Was Senator Barnaby Joyce at the same Senate inquiry in Perth on Monday as the West Australian reporter who filed this report? Growers back abolishment of single wheat desk the headline screams. (Click on coloured text to go to that story).
The lead paragraph says - “West Australian wheatgrowers have thrown their support behind the abolition of the single desk wheat marketing system, in stark contrast to eastern states growers.”
If you read Senator Joyce’s article and then read the West Australian article you’d have to think they were at 2 different hearings or if not one of them had succumbed to a mind altering substance.
Is it my imagination or is the West Australian article slightly biased toward the major proponents / beneficiary’s of abolishing of the single desk? Why would the West Australian be trying to convince the populous that WA wheat growers want the Single Desk gone?
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Here’s what some of the Agmate’s had to say about abolishing the single wheat desk last week:
You can see the full text of all the online comments below and more by Clicking Here and scrolling down the page.
Greg Crook WA.
“Farm/ Farmer in the dictionary means “A tract of land used for agriculture or other industry; to cultivate ; to raise livestock,fish etc on a farm “
Nothing about being a bloody hot shot grain trader trying to outsmart the rest of the world and coming a gutser every second time while the grubs ate the back paddock out because he was at the computer all day!”
Jock Munro NSW
“This is a treacherous piece of legislation that hands over the marketing of the Australian wheat crop to foreign multi national interests.
Our single desk marketing system is a credit to our Nation and the three generations of wheat growers who have developed it over 60 years.”
Rowell Walton QLD
” as every farmer knows, every meeting I have ever attended has had hundreds vote to retain our model of marketing, just one percent or less against and here we are with the Labor party about to give us the kinfe, farmers assume the Labor party will, but it was the Labor party which gave us this model, It has been the awful Liberal party which has so underhandedly bought us to this place with their philosophical extremism. “
Jock Munro NSW
“Tony Burke will one day realize that he has been ‘duped’ by trader middlemen and the Liberal Party. Lets hope for wheat growers sake it is in the very near future and he withdraws his treacherous Bill.”
Ben Reece
“The real question free marketers must explain is why major production contraction in 2006/07 compared to 2001/02 could only deliver $4.10 increase in domestic valuation of the unit price for wheat. A deregulated domestic market should have delivered a much higher premium.
It can be inferred from this data that the deregulated domestic market carries all the characteristics necessary for classifications as either market failure or excess capacity in the marketing sector. This needs to be identified and explained by supporters of the deregulation.”
Gary Butcher WA.
“The problem with Senator Judith Adams is that if she has ever been to any of the meetings in WA discussing the retention of single desk then she must have been asleep.
The meetings I attended had an overwhelming majority in favor of retaining single desk (300 for / 6 against Minginew 2007). The Western Australian growers I talk to are not against single desk but are sick of politicians not listening to to what the overwhelming majority has to say.”
Have your say! What are your thoughts? Do you agree with the federal government abolishing the single desk wheat marketing system? Click on the blue word comment below to have your say.
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The more I follow this the more I wonder how did this ever get any start.
I have contacted growers in Qld & NSW are have not found one grower who does not support the single desk.
If our politicians are here to represent the majority view then this legislation should go no where. I was at the Senate hearing in Canberra & there was not one farmer there to support the new proposal but many farmers from Qld, NSW, Vic & SA to support the single desk.
I implore the Labor party to consider the overwhelming view.